Album Reviews – Page 4 – The Talking Fern

Review: St. Paul and the Broken Bones Get a Little More Modern on ‘Young Sick Camellia’

The band acknowledges that R&B didn’t end in the Eighties but doesn’t quite push its sound forward enough.

Her second album recalls an era when the boundaries between jazz, soul and pop were more fluid

An ace songwriter who has worked with Madonna and Beyonce struggles to come up with a decent batch of tunes for his debut LP

The Maryland road dogs team up with Grammy-winning Nashville producer Vance Powell for their fun, funky 12th full-length

His eleventh album adds more political bite to his signature soulful, funky rock and roll

With nods to Chicago house and early hip-hop, the veteran soulman’s latest more than lives up to his freewheeling legacy

The French duo behind “Territory” settles for formulaic house music on its debut full-length.

New versions of deep cuts from throughout his solo career remind us he’s still a perfectionist after all these years

An ambitious Nashville singer-songwriter takes a trip way way beyond country music

Gary Clark Jr. and Leon Bridges are among the local musicians helping out the Houston hero on his first album in five years.